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  • Chapter 40 - Critical Reception up to 1900

  • from Part VI - Critical Fortunes and Literary Afterlife
  • Edited by Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University, Wisconsin, George Justice, University of Tulsa
  • Book:
    Daniel Defoe in Context
    Published online:
    27 April 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023, pp 347-354

  • Summary

    An overview of the two major threads of pre-1900 scholarship on Defoe: biography and bibliography. Defoe never provided, publicly or privately, a reliable and comprehensive accounting of his published works. This has led to what P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens call the ’blood-thirsty business’ of Defoe bibliography and attribution studies, which has been at the heart of Defoe studies since its very beginning.

  • Chapter 41 - Critical Reception after 1900

  • from Part VI - Critical Fortunes and Literary Afterlife
  • Edited by Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University, Wisconsin, George Justice, University of Tulsa
  • Book:
    Daniel Defoe in Context
    Published online:
    27 April 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023, pp 355-362

  • Summary

    This chapter honours the considerable challenge of attempting to sum up the critical reception of an author whose oeuvre is both compendious and disputed. It contemplates the gradual shift of focus in the twentieth century from biographical to literary criticism in the many attempts to wrestle Defoe into something comprehensible. As a reliable touchstone amid the many twentieth-century attribution wars, Robinson Crusoe has and continues to dominate critical inquiry into Defoe due to (rise of the) novel theories. And yet, ultimately, scholarship has also managed to move beyond, without giving up, Crusoe.